Lovers On The Bridge, The (Les amants du Pont-Neuf) (1991)

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Synopsis

Dir: Leos Carax. French-language Drama. A homeless circus performer (Denis Lavant) and a wandering painter, with failing eyesight (Juliette Binoche), fall in love while living on a bridge in Paris.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs
• Infrequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence - little blood, some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual suggestive scenes - no nudity, little detail
• Infrequent breast, buttock, male genital, and female frontal nudity in a non-sexual context
• Frequent portrayals of alcohol use in an addiction context; infrequent portrayals of tobacco use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - some detail

Thematic elements

• Homelessness
• Coping with illness
• Love and obsession

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for nudity, violence, and substance abuse

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